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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1938
Page
2
An old-style disclaimer from The Daily News published at the News-Post Building warns against publishing communications without the writer’s real name and authority. It notes corrections for reputational matters and requires real names for statement of facts or opinions.
A 1930s style note highlights airline industry steps to restore safety records after winter accidents. Precautions and better instruments reduce weather risks while some carriers defer to pilots own judgment. Pilots receive full wages even when flights are canceled due to bad weather, underscoring safety over schedule.
The piece surveys US readers on lax radio censorship and notes the British Broadcasting Company edited a Canadian Indian naturalist's appeal on a children's program to avoid a contentious subject. It argues censorship is tricky for both officials and audiences and favors public education over censorship while highlighting censors' challenges.
Daily English lessons explain propitious meaning to fit favorable moments. A Passion Play film, based on Oberammergau and Freiburg, will be shown at Centennial Memorial United Brethren church with organ and choir, 7:30 p.m. Rev J H Schmitt presiding. silver offering collected. The 1790 US census put population at 3 929 214.
A World War I saga recounted in The Lost Battalion by Fletcher Pratt and Thomas M. Johnson. It challenges myths about Colonel Whittlesey and the Argonne action, presenting a corrected chronicle of the five day siege and its impact on German lines.
Thurmont reports officers of the Democratic Women's Organization of Thurmont were re-elected. The slate includes Aliss Louise McPherson as president, Mrs. C. C. Waters as first vice president, Mrs. Harry Ruch as second vice president, Mrs. Carl Gall as recording secretary, Caroline McGill as corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Luther Buhrman as treasurer.
Stanley Jones recounts a humorous evangelistic tale where a community simpleton volunteers in services. He frightens a prominent man with a blunt heaven or hell exchange, prompting the man to realize his selfish life and finally surrender to Christ. The story notes even fools can reveal wisdom to the worldly wise.
The Junior Choir of Centen nial Memorial United Brethren church Frederick presents an Easter cantata Life Love and Triumphant this Sunday at 7 30 in the church auditorium The Sorrowing One Spirit of Love and Spirit of Life lead the performance with Betty Akers Mary Lou Lightner Betty Grimes and others in roles The choir is new and directed by Elizabeth H Summers and Mrs Charles W Putman
Miss Maggie Blaine niece of James G Blaine arrives in Frederick to resume studies at the Academy of the Visitation. J H Keller renovates the Market and Second streets storeroom to open a grocery. John Hartman the Slater returns from Mechanicstown and Chambersburg PA after slate roof work.
The Den Mothers club held its monthly meeting at the XY o c A reading room Monday afternoon at 2 30 with 19 mothers present. President Mrs. Joseph Griffin presided as a paper on the History of Scouting by Mrs. Emory B Shipisy was read, tracing its development. a prize was won by Mrs. H Noel Haller. They adjourned to meet again the second Monday in May.
Frederick county sets a $40,000 Red Cross quota as part of wartime drives. The News argues war costs are modest for Allies, about $1 billion monthly. A dogged effort to conserve food urges separating waste from ashes for hog feed, noting nearly anything but coffee grounds can be used. Youths Guy and Chester Summers survive a motorcycle overturn near Myersville. Life-long Shepherdstown resident Towner Schley, aged 74, dies, having visited the city often.
A Lewis Town Community fall supper hosted by Loubtown Women’s Club featured guests and husbands, displays of green and yellow favors, and spring flowers. Mrs. Julian Howe performed solos. a program showcased moving tableaux of Yellowstone Park and Holland. A pageant committee formed to plan Brides Day on April 29 at the Community Hall, with a penny march planned for April 20 at Mrs Walter Heckert’s home.
Utica Lutheran Woman's League and Sen's Club met at Lewistown Community Hall with 18 members present. Mrs Stae Miller opened with singing and prayer. reports on recent sales and basket sales were given. a quilt donation was shown. refreshments, a poison penny winner, and future events including an entertainment blind auction were announced.
Health writer discusses World War era gases including phosgene chlorine and chloropicrin, their effects on lungs and eyes, symptoms, and potential survivability. Also notes protective clothing and antidotes, plus need for future adherence to bans despite temptations to use gas again. Additionally reports Dr Louise Heath elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Mount Holyoke and Japanese organization of Chinese Muslims in North China to resist Communism.
High School students at Frederick High present The Missing Witness a Samuel French drama by James Reach on Friday May 6 at eight in the auditorium. Miss Elizabeth C Pyles directs with a cast including George Knill Burton Cannon Albert Fisher Jules Shapiro John Derr James Ewing Theresa Gerrich Paul Engelbrecht Kenneth Alexander Jane McComas Helen Herbert Eleanor Snoutfer Janet Schindeldetker Kitty Chapline Betty Rice Ruth Storm Clinton Rhoades Harry Shipley Gregor Oden Emily Myers Dorothy Ford with faculty in charge of makeup staging and costumes and business arrangements.
During summer a tip on anchoring light throw rugs reduces slipping with mason jar rings under rugs. The meeting featured readings by Miss Mabel Thomas and Mrs Helen Morrison, a planning color schemes demonstration by Miss Williamson, and a home grounds program by Mrs Mary Faber. Refreshments followed and the club set April 15 at Miss Nina Marriotte’s home.
In New York April 12 the Carnegie Hall facade hides lively legends of stars like Walter Gieseking and Jose Iturbi drifting to smoky West 52nd Street joints. Tales claim Arturo Toscanini and Walter Damrosch mingle with Hollywood fans while Miss Helen Hayes knits on tours. De a Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, allegedly shuns crowds aboard a South American cruise, sparking a wave of circulating rumors.
A 1950s etiquette quiz asks how to handle hat tipping, paying for lunch, cigarette manners, and dancing decorum. It presents guidelines: remove hat in greeting, let a woman decide who pays, part with a cigarette when needed, and avoid indiscreet gossip about a dress flaw.
A historical recap notes figures born or died on fixed dates including Henry Clay of Kentucky, Sam in Hanover County Virginia, Michael Heiss of Milwaukee, Donald G. Mitchell Ik Marvel of Connecticut, Charles Foster of Ohio, John Shaw Billings of Indiana, John T. Underwood of Brooklyn, Edward M. Goodwin of North Carolina.
William B. Bankhead of Alabama Speaker of the House born in Moscow Alabama 64 years ago. Alexander F. Whitney of Creveland president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen born Cedar Falls Iowa 65 years ago. Maj Gen Edgar T. Conley Adjutant General retires born Fairland Maryland 64 years ago. Julian Street New York author born Chicago 59 years ago. U S Senator Fred H Brown New Hampshire born Osippee New Hampshire 59 years ago. Frederic G Melcher New York editor Publishers Weekly born Malden Massachusetts 59 years ago. Dr Daniel L Marsh president ...
A sequence from 1788 to 1935 highlights early industry by 1788 first power loom in Philadelphia to 1935 dust storms, noting notable events and figures such as Astor enterprise reaching the Columbia River, New York Life Insurance founded, Tweed’s jail death, and a 1917 US gunfire incident near a German submarine marking early wartime action.
The reading warns natives of melancholy tendencies risking disorder and poor judgment with indecision. It suggests ambition can yield rewards and success may seem accidental. It also references large boulders scattered countrywide once believed to be washed in by the big Biblical Flood.
A fragmented puzzle fragment asks which word in each list should not belong. It presents four sets with mixed vocabulary such as Embonpoint rotundity and gifts, Rose and crimson, Sycophancy and porphyry, and Eave or arcade terms, then ends with an answer prompt and a trailing garbled line.
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